Proverbs 11:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.
לֹא־יוֹעִ֣יל ה֭וֹן בְּי֣וֹם עֶבְרָ֑ה וּ֝צְדָקָ֗ה תַּצִּ֥יל מִמָּֽוֶת׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 10:2Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.
- Zeph 1:18Neither shall their silver and their gold be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: all the land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy destruction of all them that dwell in the land.
- Gen 7:1And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.
- Ezek 7:19Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall become a dunghill. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their soul, and their bellies shall not be filled: because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
- 1 Tim 4:8For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.
- Ps 49 (48):6
- Ps 49 (48):8
- Matt 16:26For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?